Creative lab for experienced and early-career artists

#MNroughmix

ROUGH MIX is a paid creative lab for early-stage ideas and practice development: a two-week practical opportunity for artists to try out new ideas or new ways of working. It brings together a small core group of practitioners from different disciplines and gives them time to start developing new projects in a supportive and collaborative atmosphere. The practitioners work together with a group of performers and two early-career artists over a two week period before making a work-in-progress showing at the end.

We offer two prioritised places: one for an artist identifying as Deaf or disabled and one for an artist from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background. It is open to both experienced and early-career artists and selection is through an open call process.

There have been 8 Rough Mix residencies so far in Scotland: in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Peebles. In 2018, we held our first international Rough Mix in Auckland, New Zealand - you can read more about it here. Rough Mix 2019 will be at Perth Theatre - find out about the artists taking part.

Film-maker Julien Pearly made this short film about Rough Mix 2015:

Previous years:

For information about previous Rough Mixes and to find out about the participating artists, please follow these links: